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Why broken shoes are great

Somewhere half 2013 I bought myself a new pair of shoes. They were of the very very cheap kind and hence with the low price, came the low quality. After a single game of football (soccer) with my youngest kid there was a hole in it. But, me being a bit stubborn, on holidays that time,  and just bought the shoes a month before, refused to go and buy new shoes instantly.

I decided to wear em a bit longer till they’re worn off. Somehow I ended up wearing them till they really are broken. See for yourself

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You probably think like “What the heck? Why do you wear that?” It’s fairly simple why having broken shoes is great! And there are at least 3 reasons!
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Java ‘Virtual’ User Group

Have you enrolled yet?

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Since the beginning of November 2013 there is a new JUG in earth town. The ideal JUG for all Java people that sometimes have a hard time to get to there own local JavaUserGroup due to the remote locations or the bad timings and such.

The group is gathered on meetup. Given that it only just started and already had 3 sessions and over 650 members in 1 month, that’s a great start!

Session are brought to you using Google Hangouts + Live Streaming on the VirtualJUG YouTube channel, other communications like questions to presenters during the sessions are done via IRC on freenode. You can reach #virtualJUG channel (beware the # it’s also part of the channel name) with any IRC Client or through the webchat.

All sessions are recorded and minutes after session end you can watch it again on the YouTube channel. If if you don’t want to join you might want to watch a session there!

See you at the vJUG meetings.

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DevOps JSR aka Java Config JSR

On twitter there were some rumbles on a Java Config aka Devops JSR. I went to read it’s mailinglist and it gave me a bit the creeps! And I thought  “ah no 140 chars is to short for a decent rant! so I wrote a rant on RebelLabs”

Get going, what are you still reading here? You should be reading the link.